STUDENT FUN DAY

Introduction

The writer was focusing more on team work during the implementation time of the student fun day which was held at the Francistown College of Training Vocational Education on the 27^th of March. According to Tarricone and Luca (2002) teamwork is defined by Scarnati (2001, p. 5) “as a cooperative process that allows ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results”. Team has a mutual goal or a drive where team members can grow effective, mutual relationships to reach team goals. It can also help to achieve common team goals by sharing knowledge and skills. The kitchen team was working together and helping each other to come up with ideas of what can be done because they had shortage of commodities; they came up with nice dishes and also managed to sell them.

 

Teamwork is an important part of workplace success. Like a basketball team working together to set up the perfect shot, every team member has an exact role to play in achieving tasks on the job. It may seem as if one player scored the basket, but it was made possible by many people’s planning, organization, and cooperation to get that player the ball. (Mc Graw, 2000). The event planners also took part in the games so that all the people who attended can also join and play together as one team.

 

Kennedy and Nilson (2008) illustrate that having a simple understanding of how teams work gives members a common way of thinking about teams. It also helps set common performance beliefs and stimulates understanding and trust among team members.